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Sunday, 6 May 2012

Stitch holder and KASAD6: Mint coconut ice

If you're a crafter, I'm guessing that you have many UFO (unfinished objects) lying around. I needed the needles that I had this project on, and I wasn't going to get this blue vest finished in time. I needed these needles to make a lot of the squares for this month, so the pressure was on!

The vest was on circular needles. (I often knit in rows on circular needles - they are smaller and I prefer the way they sit on my hand. Also, I can't lose one since they're attached!)

The stitch holder looks like a really big safety pin.

A few stitches at a time, move the stitch from the needles onto the stitch holder. Keep going, moving the knitting around the needles as you go.

I find it easiest to pick the stitches up with the pin before I slide them off the needle.

When you have moved all the stitches onto the stitch holder, fasten the 'safety pin' bit up and you're all finished. Free needles, and another UFO to come back to :) Now, for today's square, knitted with these liberated needles...